Provides statistical information on trends in public sector employment in developed and developing countries.

Provides statistical information on trends in public sector employment in developed and developing countries.

The development of international trade has enabled industrialised countries to obtain supplies of high-quality, high-tech products very cheaply from developing countries. But the ever-falling prices of these imported goods have eroded the interest of industrialised countries in producing them...

This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy...

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...

One of the issues of maximum interes to our century is the analysis of implications of globalization on the world economy and this proves to be even more important now in the middle of financial crisis. Forecasts from the World Bank are very optimistic o